Pieces (1982)

Original title

Mil gritos tiene la noche

Directed by

Juan Piquer Simón

Genre

horror film, slasher film, splatter film, mystery film, thriller film

Country

Spain

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

R

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 288 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A killer is murdering female college students in Boston and using their body parts to assemble a human jigsaw puzzle. The police investigate the gruesome crimes as the body count rises.

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What happens

Pieces (Spanish: Mil gritos tiene la noche, lit. 'The Night Has 1,000 Screams') is a 1982 slasher film directed by Juan Piquer Simón, written and produced by Dick Randall, and starring Christopher George, Paul Smith, Edmund Purdom, Linda Day George, Ian Sera and Jack Taylor. The plot follows an unknown assailant killing female students at a college campus in Boston, and using their body parts to make a human jigsaw puzzle. A co-production between Spain, Italy, the United States, Pieces was filmed largely in Spain. It was released in Spain in August 1982, and was distributed in the United States the following year by Film Ventures International. Since its release, the film has attracted a cult following. While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty controversy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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